E36 Alpinas at Auction

[Lord Vader]

I believe interiors like that were usually custom ordered by the original owners. Like the Individual program, Alpina would do any color you wanted. Case in point the E31 B12 in Techno Violet and Techno Violet...

[jrsmitchell]

Originally Posted by Lord Vader

I believe interiors like that were usually custom ordered by the original owners. Like the Individual program, Alpina would do any color you wanted. Case in point the E31 B12 in Techno Violet and Techno Violet...

Oh I agree they offered that. But for this range of E36s they must have offered it as standard. If you click through the Alpina Archive it's hundreds of cars with mostly Alpina cloth and some leather, then all of a sudden every single car has purple, blue or seafoam green Alcantara. Then it switches back to clotch / leather for the final several cars. I've always found that strange.

[Scooter]

I noticed that as well. It seems the ones they offered as "30th anniversary Editions" had the coloured interior like that. I prefer the "normal" Alpina cloth myself.

Well that Technoviolet B3 sure wasn't cheap. Sold for over 900k JPY. I had a bid in around 600k, but obviously that wasn't even close LOL!

[Lord Vader]

Well one thing I learned was in the 90's BMW offered the full range of the European Individual Program in North America and soon many cars were ordered with ridiculous color schemes. BMW NA eventually turfred it because people were ordering ridiculous colors as a lease or not taking delivery of them. I had heard color schemes like this was semi common in Europe for a period, so it must have been a fad for a few years.

[tekazgtr1984]

New to forum... So, newb question but how rare is the 4.6 sedan?

There seem to be quite a lot of E36 Alpinas at auction at Japan. I'd love to scoop up one of these, preferably a manual 3.2 or 4.6.

[Scooter]

Originally Posted by tekazgtr1984

New to forum... So, newb question but how rare is the 4.6 sedan?

There seem to be quite a lot of E36 Alpinas at auction at Japan. I'd love to scoop up one of these, preferably a manual 3.2 or 4.6.

VERY I've been watching auctions for 5 years and I've only seen three B8's go through auction in Japan. Mine One other sedan and one convertible. I think I've seen three 4.0 B8's (maybe just two). I don't remember how many 3.2's I've seen, but they aren't too common either.

[Lord Vader]

Originally Posted by tekazgtr1984

New to forum... So, newb question but how rare is the 4.6 sedan?

There seem to be quite a lot of E36 Alpinas at auction at Japan. I'd love to scoop up one of these, preferably a manual 3.2 or 4.6.

Apparently they made 93 Sedan and Touring B8 4.6's. I thought they were less, but German Wikipedia confirmed it: http://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpina_B8


The B8 4.0 is even rarer:

[tekazgtr1984]

I didn't even know there was a 4.0... That's incredible!

[Scooter]

There's actually 5 (or maybe 6) 4.0 B8's. Check Alpina archive for more information on the cars

http://www.alpina-archive.com/?cat=399

Check out the totals for the 4.6's as well. There were less than 93 tourings. The sedan (limo) is the most common with 93 made. A total of 221 4.6 B8's were made.

[Scooter]

B6 wagon, but it looks a bit rough. At first glance I was considering a low bid, but with D grade interior...no thanks.